Rand Paul Presses Johns Hopkins Dean on “Pro Choice” Hypocrisy

Sen. Rand Paul asked Thursday if the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing dean was ‘pro-choice.’

‘Are you pro-choice in regards to patients making individualized medical choices?” Paul asked Dr. Sarah Szanton.

“Broadly, thank you, yes,” Szanton replied.

Paul began a larger conversation to point out that other countries have had greater medical freedoms than the United States.

“Are you aware that your university doesn’t allow choice with regard to vaccination, that you require all of your students to have three vaccines in order to be students?” Paul asked.

“Yes,” She replied.

“So it’s sort of choice, but not so much when regarding vaccination,” Paul continued.

The senator asked Szanton if she was okay. “aware of the increased risk of myocarditis with the COVID vaccine, particularly with successive COVID vaccinations in males between the ages of 16 and 24?”

Szanton was back with “I’m prepared to talk about the nursing crisis, and that we have vaccine requirements across the board for.” 

Paul stopped her.

He stated, “Here’s the problem, if you exclude everybody from being a nurse who believes in basic immunology, you’re gonna include a lot of smart people, people who believe that you can get immunity from both vaccination as well as infection, and if you say, ‘Well, we’re just not gonna take the people who believe in that old-fashioned infection thing providing immunity, we’re only gonna take the people who do as they’re told’ — I mean, do you think individuals should be treated the same when they come to the emergency room?” 

The COVID-19 vaccine is not available in Britain, France (Germany), Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Why then do American universities like Johns Hopkins require three vaccines instead of sticking their heads in the sand? pic.twitter.com/tQFcKQNowH

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) February 16, 2023

Senator said that people need different treatment. That one size fits all doesn’t always work. It is important to treat older people differently than younger ones, for instance.

Paul listed the countries that he claimed had more restrictive vaccine policies.

“In Britain, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, they don’t have university mandates on this,” Paul said. “Some countries don’t recommend it for children at all.” 

“There really is a debate and a discussion, you can have an opposite debate that if you believe in choice, when something has a debate and there’s arguments on both side, you’d give people a choice,” He concluded.

Rand Paul spoke more before concluding. “This isn’t an argument against vaccinations, it’s an argument for thinking, and understanding that people of different ages could respond differently.”

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